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BEST
SUNDAY
JANUARY 31,1999
6pjn. FOX
SUPER BOWL XXXIII
The Atlanta Falcons take on the
Denver Broncos in the annual
National Football League showdown.
The veteran sportscasting team of
John Madden and Pat Sununerall
calls the action from Miami’s Pro
Player Stadium, with help from Ron
Pitts and Bill Maas on the sidelines.
Gloria Estefan and Stevie Wonder are
among the halftime entertainers.
7 pin. ABC
MOVIE: MUPPET TREA
SURE ISLAND
Tim Curry (The Rocky Horror
Picture Show) plays pirate Long John
Silver in this zany adaptation of
Robert Louis Stevenson’s adventure
Fox's Family Guy joins
new wave of animation
on TV
By John Crook
©TVData Features Syndicate
A subversive new animated come
dy from a hot young cartoonist hits
the airwaves as Fox’s Family Guy
premieres in a special post-Super
Bowl preview on Sunday, Jan. 31.
The off-the-wall series, which
includes a talking dog and a baby
who is an evil genius, is the creation
of Seth MacFarlane. The 25-year-old
animator recently landed a multimil
lion-dollar development deal with
Fox.
A bizarre mixture of The Simpsons
and Fox’s long-running sitcom
Married ... With Children, Family
Guy is set in the suburban home of
the Griffins, a clan headed by father
Peter, a dim slob who makes Homer
Simpson look like a Rhodes scholar.
Unfailingly (and inappropriately)
cheerful, Peter suffers the disapproval
of wife Lois, who in turn has her
hands full with the rest of the house
hold: mopey teen-age daughter Meg,
slacker son Chris and baby Stewie,
who spends every waking minute
plotting world domination. Only
Brian, the family’s very articulate
dog, has it all together.
MacFarlane and fellow executive
producer David Zuckerman are hop
ing that the sinister tot Stewie will
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tale. Kermit the Frog takes on the role ■
of Skipper Smollett, with Miss Piggy
as his long-lost love, Benjamina
Gunn, who’s worshiped as a goddess
by the porcine natives of Treasure
Island. Kevin Bishop and Billy
Connolly also star.
7pjn.NßC
MOVIE: CLUELESS
Jane Austen’s Emma comes to
1990 s Beverly Hills, Calif., in the
person of Cher (Alicia Silverstone), a
good-hearted but airheaded teen who
has a real knack for straightening out
other people’s love lives but remains
oblivious to what’s best for her own.
Stacey Dash, Brittany Murphy, Paul
Rudd and Dan Hedaya also star in
this 1995 comedy.
7:30 pan. MTV
CELEBRITY DEATHMATCH
DEATHBOWL ’99
The cable channel continues its 2-
year-old tradition of airing a special
edition of its popular fantasy fight
series against the Super Bowl. This
year, singer-actress Dolly Parton
takes on actress Jennifer Lopez, and
Mike Tyson tries for another piece of
Evander Holyfield. The halftime
show includes music by Madonna.
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Baby Stewie is the youngest member of the animated Griffin clan, which
makes its debut Sunday in Family Guy, airing after the Super Bowl on Fox.
the level of Bart Simpson. The little
guy is quite distinctive.
“Stewie is the evil scientist from
1950 s science fiction,” MacFarlane
explains. “We don’t know why he is
the way he is, and it’s something
that’s not entirely registered by the
rest of the family.”
“But he approaches everything
from a baby’s point of view,”
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9 pun. NBC
This 1995 romantic comedy stars
Sarah Jessica Parker as a recently
engaged young woman who wonders
whether her marriage will be as
happy as her parents’ union. But
when she learns both her parents -
and just about everyone else in her
family -- are having affairs, she has a
new worry: Will she be able to beat
the odds and have a good marriage?
Mia Farrow and Antonio Banderas
also star.
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eat vegetables, so he decides that he’s
going to build a weather machine that
can destroy crops all over the world.”
As Fox provided only clips for this
preview, the full show is an unknown
quantity for now. One irreverent
scene in church, however, is hilari
ous: As the minister begins relating
the story of Job, we see God in the
congregation grabbing his head and
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In Miami Rhapsody, airing Sunday on NBC, an engaged woman (Sarah
Jessica Parker) questions her commitment when she finds out her mother
has a boyfriend (Antonio Banderas).
IN FOCUS
Shelley Long
Emmy winner Shelley Long
plays a mother whose worst fear
comes true in Vanished Without a
Trace, airing Monday, Feb. 1, on
NBC.
Elizabeth’s (Long) teen-age
daughter is spirited and slightly
rebellious but basically good. When
she suddenly disappears, the police
search for weeks with no results.
This doesn’t deter Elizabeth, who
uses every means at her disposal,
even resorting to a psychic. But time
eventually runs out for her daughter.
Elizabeth now hunts for a mur
derer.
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